One of our most challenging collections is housed at the Keston Center for Religion, Politics and Society. Containing materials related to religious persecution in Communist countries – most notably the former Soviet Union – the Keston Digital Collection features items ranging from anti-American propaganda posters to photographs, brochures, and other ephemera. It is an important and difficult collection to wrestle…
Month: November 2022
(Poage) Chet Edwards and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993
Chet Edwards and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993
(ABL) Reflections from a Visiting Scholar: The Irreverent Eye
Reflections from a Visiting Scholar: The Irreverent Eye
By the Numbers: Updates to the Digital Collections, 2019-Present
The creation and growth of digital collections always seems to move in fits and starts. That often means months of behind-the-scenes effort digitizing items, describing them, preserving their high-resolution master files, and – finally – adding them to the access system. For us, that can involve working through hundreds of Black gospel music recordings, dozens of manuscripts for a famous…